V2_35 Years

In september 2017 V2_ exists 35 years: 35 years of unstable media, electronic arts, interactive installations and artistic involvement with new technologies. During the coming year we will celebrate and look back on our history with our community. We will do this with a string of public events.

In 1982 V2_ started as an artist initiative in a squatted building at the Vughterstraat 234 in Den Bosch. The building became colloquially known as V2, and in September 1982 an event with video art and performances of experimental punk music was announced under the name V2. This was the official birth of V2_. Over the following years V2_ became a multimedia organization which grew into a center for art and media technology. In 1994 V2_ moved to the Eendrachtsstraat in Rotterdam where it continues to produce, present, and publish research at the interface of art, technology and society, and offers a platform for artists, designers, scientists, researchers, theorists, and developers of software and hardware to discuss their work and share their findings.

Machine Art in the Twentieth Century

We kicked of this festive year with the presentation of Andreas Broeckmann's book 'Machine Art in the Twentieth Century', on the 27th of September, The subject matter of the book is tightly interwoven with the history of V2_. Art historian and curator Broeckmann also had a big influence on V2_ during our early, formative years. The evening included performances, debate and cocktails.

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Join us for a festive evening devoted to the book Machine Art in the Twentieth Century, written by the renowned art historian and curator Andreas Broeckmann and published by the MIT Press. Featuring performances by JODI and Jan-Kees van Kampen, this ...

In September of this year V2_ will be 35 years old. Usually we prefer to look forward into the future and not dwell too much on the achievements of the past. The past does matter though. It’s V2_’s history, it's a story of events and ideas about ...

In writing about 35 years of V2_ there’s no way around writing about the ‘Manifesto for the Unstable Media’. If there is a single thing that has defined V2_, it’s this manifesto. After it was written V2_ started calling itself ‘Institute ...